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News Blair calls for stronger UK terror laws
Blair calls for stronger UK terror laws
Natalie Hrubos
May 27, 2007 12:18:00 pm

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday in an op-ed published in the Sunday Times that the country has chosen to protect the civil liberties of foreign nationals over national security and therefore...

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News Suspended Pakistan CJ lauds judicial independence in high court address
Suspended Pakistan CJ lauds judicial independence in high court address
Natalie Hrubos
May 27, 2007 11:40:00 am

Thousands of Pakistanis rallied outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan Saturday in support of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry , who returned to the court building for the first time since being suspended...

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News Ukraine leaders make election deal in bid to end constitutional standoff
Ukraine leaders make election deal in bid to end constitutional standoff
Natalie Hrubos
May 27, 2007 10:57:00 am

Ukrainian political rivals President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych agreed Sunday to hold elections on September 30 in a move intended to end an escalating constitutional crisis in...

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News Mexico attorney general joins legal challenge to Mexico City abortion law
Mexico attorney general joins legal challenge to Mexico City abortion law
Brett Murphy
May 26, 2007 10:42:00 am

The Mexican government joined in opposition to a Mexico City abortion law legalizing abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy on Friday, appointing Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora to help argue before the Supreme...

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News Canada court upholds challenge to secrecy provisions in freedom of information law
Canada court upholds challenge to secrecy provisions in freedom of information law
Brett Murphy
May 26, 2007 10:00:00 am

An Ontario Court of Appeal panel ruled Friday that officials making determinations under the Canadian province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act had to weigh the public interest in the release of information...

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News UN rights investigator says US committing  violations
UN rights investigator says US committing violations
Brett Murphy
May 26, 2007 09:52:00 am

An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council said Friday that the US has committed human rights violations in its interrogations of terror suspects and by putting questionable restrictions on immigration. In preliminary report from what will...

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News Peru conference pushes for cluster bomb ban
Peru conference pushes for cluster bomb ban
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 25, 2007 08:19:00 pm

Delegates from 68 countries wrapped up a three-day meeting in Lima, Peru Friday intended as a follow-up to the February Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions , where participants signed a declaration to ban...

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News Canada high court denies constitutional right to tax-free legal services
Canada high court denies constitutional right to tax-free legal services
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 25, 2007 07:14:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled Friday that there exists no constitutional right to access legal services in Canada. The holding overturned two lower court decisions that had declared British Columbia's seven percent tax on...

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News Libby should get up to 3-year prison sentence: prosecutor
Libby should get up to 3-year prison sentence: prosecutor
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 25, 2007 06:22:00 pm

A federal prosecutor said Friday that former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should receive 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison for blocking the investigation into the Valerie Plame CIA leak case . In papers...

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News Toronto mayor calls for complete Canada handgun ban after latest shooting
Toronto mayor calls for complete Canada handgun ban after latest shooting
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 25, 2007 05:47:00 pm

Toronto Mayor David Miller Friday condemned a Wednesday shooting at a Toronto Ontario high school that left a 15-year-old student dead and called for a complete ban on handguns to prevent similar incidents in the future. Despite...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Inquisition of Galileo begins

On April 12, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church began its formal inquisition of Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was tried by the Roman Inquisition "for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the sun is the center of the world" in direct contradiction to the Catholic Church's teaching that man and the Earth are the center of the Universe. Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy" and sentenced to life in prison. His punishment was later commuted to house arrest. Learn more about the trial of Galileo Galilei.

President Clinton cited for contempt in Paula Jones case

On April 12, 1999, US District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court in the Paula Jones case, concluding that the President had provided "intentionally false" evidence in that case about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

Read a contemporary CNN report here.

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